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NeedHlp
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admin password recovery

Wed Jul 03, 2019 5:47 pm

HI,
I'm new here and need some help.
We have MikroTik with RouterOS v6.44.3 in the company.
Until April we had an administrator who is no longer with us, died and took the passwords with him.
Is there any way to recover the admin pass from the box itself?
I can not reset it, because it will wipe the VPN settings. ;(
Thanks in advance!
 
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Re: admin password recovery

Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:50 pm

Maybe he saved login details in the winbox on his pc. Otherwise you need to reset the devices...
 
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Re: admin password recovery

Thu Jul 04, 2019 12:53 pm

No winbox on his PC, nothing in the browser history. :(
 
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Re: admin password recovery

Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:38 pm

What about ssh using identity files (private/public keys)? If you can get in that way as user with admin credentials, you can set password without knowing the old one.
 
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Re: admin password recovery

Thu Jul 04, 2019 2:26 pm

Do you have any .backup files? I believe they contain user passwords in them that can be extracted.

Other then that, its too new for the old password database hack, you might not have much choice but to factory reset and rebuild - and learn a lesson on having multiple accounts/passwords or complete config backups.
 
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Re: admin password recovery

Thu Jul 04, 2019 5:17 pm

No, nothing.
Can't find any.
:(
 
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Re: admin password recovery

Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:14 pm

Then only way for mikrotik is to reset devices to factory default!

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